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INNOVATION PROCESSES - course description

General information
Course name INNOVATION PROCESSES
Course ID 04.0-WZ-P-IP-S18
Faculty Faculty of Legal and Economic Sciences
Field of study WEiZ - oferta ERASMUS
Education profile -
Level of studies Erasmus programme
Beginning semester winter term 2021/2022
Course information
Semester 2
ECTS credits to win 5
Course type obligatory
Teaching language english
Author of syllabus
  • dr hab. inż. Piotr Dzikowski, prof. UZ
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Lecture 15 1 - - Exam
Class 30 2 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

The aim of the course is to acquire basic knowledge about the structure and functioning of innovation systems and their shaping factors.

The ability to plan any sort of business, from niche to mass markets. 

Prerequisites

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Scope

Economics of innovation and economics of the innovation process, types of innovative processes in industry. Different aggregations of innovation systems. The theory of clusters. Institutional and neo-institutional theories of companies in innovative systems. Methodological principles of constructing innovative strategies in the European Union. Sources of funding. The best policies in unitary, federative and regional countries, including EU countries, the United States and Japan. Determinants of innovation in developing and developed countries. Analysis of national, regional and sectoral innovation systems. Analysis of selected determinants of innovativeness of innovation systems. The business model canvas to plan any sort of business, from niche to mass markets. 

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Teaching methods

Lecture: multimedia presentation with conversational elements.

Exercises: case study, multimedia presentation, project method, group work.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Completion of the course follows the project (100%).

Recommended reading

Lundvall, B.A., National Systems of Innovation, London, 1992

Nelson, R.R., National Innovation Systems, London, 1993

Freeman, C., Technology Policy and Economic Performance, London,1987

Edquist, C., Systems of Innovation. Technologies, Institutions and Organizations, London, 1997

OECD, Oslo Manual Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data, Paris, 2005

Osterwalder, A. , Pigneur, Y., Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, John Wiley and Sons; 2010

Further reading

Malerba, Sectoral Systems of Innovation and Production, 2002

Cooke et al., Regional Innovation Systems: Institutional and Organisational Dimensions, 1997

Notes

Lecturer: p.dzikowski@wez.uz.zgora.pl


Modified by dr hab. inż. Piotr Dzikowski, prof. UZ (last modification: 24-05-2021 14:46)